number 34 • Winter 2018

Authors

E. Fuller Torrey

articles

Recent high-profile mass shootings have inspired yet another “national conversation” about mental illness. But as we appropriately focus on such incidents of violence, we must also remember the more common and mundane repercussions of mental illness. A look at national mental-health policy reveals that, for decades, public resources have frequently been used to undermine essential mental-health services, leaving the sickest of the sick without the help they desperately need.